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One of America's foremost experts on Islam says it's absolutely absurd that a group of Muslims would try to claim a moral equivalency between Christianity and Islam. The claim was made in a letter calling for dialogue between the two religions.Recently 138 leading scholars from every sect of Islam signed a letter pleading with Christian leaders that the "survival of the world" is at stake if Christians and Muslims do not make peace with each other. The Muslims called on Christians "to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions," with the scholars stressing the importance of spelling out the similarities between the Bible and the Koran.But Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, says it is absurd to put Islam on an equal footing with Christianity. "Christianity does not contain a doctrine or theology or legal system that teaches that believers should wage war against unbelievers-but Islam does contain that," he notes.Spencer claims that any attempt to show that Muslims and Christians share "violence and intransigence" toward unbelievers misrepresents both religious groups. "So to pretend that they are on an equal basis and equally responsible for modern religious violence is indeed absurd," he adds.However, he predicts liberal theologians will welcome the letter from the Islamic scholars. "Liberal Christians will eat it up and will say this is just the kind of thing that we need, just the kind of thing that we have been hoping for," he says. "And they will try to establish dialogue-but this dialogue, as is often the case with such groups, will be based on false pretenses," he asserts.As in the days of Noah....
